The
soft-psychotic delusional hysteric and the beauty of the macabre narcicism,
sex, dancing (and) death, this film by Darren Aronofsky, who won an Academy
Award for Best Actress Natalie Portman, brings us into very peculiar feelings.
The story is
summarized as follows: the ballerina Nina wants the lead role of Queen of the
Swans, which will incorporate the two sisters: the White Swan and Black Swan.
But she is afraid of losing the paper, the arrival of a competitor, Lily,
accentuates this fear, and also makes her encounter with sides of his
personality that she still denies. She becomes involved with Lily, an attempt
of the 'forget the differences "by going to a party with her and doing
drugs.
Nina lives
since then a series of delusions, where everything seems to crumble around him,
from his own image to the world around them, and where everyone seems to want persecute it and destroy it. She believes he is turning into a swan, and have
within themselves both swans. She believes hurt the other, when in fact injured
herself. In his final show, she dances all the pain of a lifetime, and although
he is dancing with her dance company, she dances self-centered in their
feelings, and may still have a last glimpse of his mother, moved with her
daughter .
On witnessing this spectacle, we have the impression
also be dancing, beautiful but painfully, we feel all sensations in the skin
and despair so common to us all. The body, which is home to our soul suffers
with it, live with it, dies with her. And our society does or sometimes we
overestimate or alienated us from our bodies, hence the origin of modern
neurosis.
Lily reflects on all she is afraid to be: sensual, self confident, arrogant,
brave, free. These aspects of it are so repressed that when faced with this
picture, it all comes to light it, as the Black Swan, White Swan in opposition
to, that its director says more consistent with his personality. So that side
of evil is awakened in her, and that is when she wants to destroy all the
fetters from the rival, overprotective mother, and life itself finally.
There are a
lot more mystical sense behind all this: there is a female, the yin, as opposed
to Male, the Yang, the archetypes of good women and bad women, the sexual and
emotional maturity, the birth of wings, the analogy to the Ugly Duckling, which
is actually a swan, our mirrors on the other, our dark side who insist on
pretending that doesn’t exist, the hierarchies in the art, the traditions of
art and the dream of liberation, at
last.